Mop-holder for brooms.



No. 821,344. PATENTEDMAY 22, 1906.

' J. P. DOEBLER, JR.

MOP HOLDER POE BHOOMS.

APPLICATION FILED 13130.2, 1904.

Emma/mm TINT STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN F. DOEBLER, JR, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND SIDNEY E. CLARKE, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 22, 1906.

Application filed December 2, 1904:. Serial No. 235,18I.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN F. DOEBLER, Jr., a citizen or the United States, and a resident of Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mop-Holders for Brooms, of which the following is a full, clear, and eXact specification.

This invention relates to mop-holders to be used in connection with the ordinary housebroom; and it has for one of its objects the provision of such a device which may be readily attached to or removed from the broom when desired.

My invention has, furthermore, for its object the improved construction of the mopholder, which permits the use of mop-cloths of any suitable material and which permits new mops to be substituted without necessitating the removal of the holder itself from the broom.

With these objects in view my invention consists in the combination of elements hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar characters denote similar parts, Fig ure 1 is a side view of a broom, showing my improved mop-holder applied thereto. Fig. 2 is an edge view thereof. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a modification of the holder detached Fig. 4 is a detail section on line 4 4 of Fig. 1 and illustrates the manner in which the mop-cloth is held against dis lacement.

Referring to the drawings, B enotes an ordinary broom having the usual handle B. The mop-holder is designated in a general way by H and comprises a band 10, adapted to embrace the body of the broom and serving as a device to which the mop M may be secured. By virtue of its preferred location the band 10 will also serve as a means for preserving or retaining the broom fibers in compact condition. While primarily it may be considered immaterial in which particular manner the mop-cloth M is secured to the band 1.0, I deem it preferable to form the latter so as to consist of a pair of clamping mem bers 10 10, arranged adjacent to each other and made of some resilient materialas, for instance, spring tempered wire-the tend ency of which is to crowd both clamps 10 10 together, and thus frictionally hold the mop M substantially in the manner shown in Fig.

when it is desired to remove the old mop or insert a new one. The mop M is intended to be drawn tightly against the broombody, and in order to preventthe band 10 from being drawn downward I provide a frame which comprises at its upper end a loop 11, adapted to fit over the broom-handle B and connected with the band 10as, for instance, by a pair of ties 12, disposed at opposite points on the band 10.

The holder I-I consists in the preferred form thereof shown of a frame made of one piece of wire bent near its middle to form an eye 15, both strands or wire ends passing around the broom-bocly in parallelism and closely adjacent to each other thence through the eye 15, when they are twisted together to form one tie 12. At the upper end of the tie the strands are separated to form the loop 11 for the reception of the broom-handle B, and they are then again twisted to form the other tie 12, which may be attached to the bandlO in any suitable manner.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that the holder II constitutes a device which may be readily detached from the broom by slipping it bodily over the broom upward and that, furthermore, when the mop M is attached to the holder in the manner described the entire device will be firmly held in position on the broom.

It is obvious that the mop-holder I-I need not necessarily be made of wire, since the frame may be formed otherwise without in any way conflicting with the spirit of the invention-as is, for instance, shown in Fig. 3 in which the loop 11, the band 10, having the members 10 10 and the ties 12 are made of separate pieces, respectively, and united to form a unitary structure.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. As a new article of manufacture, a mopholder comprising a loop adapted to fit over a broom-handle, a band consisting of a pair of adjacent resilient clamping members to hold a mop-cloth, said band being adapted to emnation with a loop adapted to fit over the handle of the broom; of a band adapted to embrace the body of the broom and consisting of a plurality of adjacent clamping members for holding a mop-cloth thereon, and ties for connecting said band with the loop at opposite points thereof.

JOHN F. DOEBLER, JR.

Witnesses: 1

SIDNEY E. CLARKE, CHAS. F. SoHuELz. 

